Wow, the costume contest is really heating up. I was happy to see that we're getting a ton of costume entries from both men and women. It's nice to know that we have such a mixed readership.

After much head-scratching and schwag-digging, I've landed on what I want to give away for first place.

The person with the top costume is going to land themselves an X-Arcade joystick complete with hook-ups for use on the Xbox, Gamecube, PC and Playstation 2. So if you game at all, you're going to be able to use this super sweet stick. (Check out my review here.) But then I started thinking how I've been going on and on about the first-place prize and making you guys wait. As nice as the X-Arcade is, it's not really the super sweet prize I think some of you have been expecting, so to bump things up a notch I'm also going to throw in a copy of NCSoft's Guild Wars for first place. And this isn't a normal copy, no this will be the Collector's Edition with that sweet ass art book, a soundtrack and your very own divine aura(for your character that is.)

So hop to it and start sending in those pictures. I want to see some staggering entries. Check out the link below for the official rules and prize break down.

Show Us Your Best Costume [Kotaku]